Colorado Front Range Center for Information Assurance Studies
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Regis University was designated by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) for academic years 2012-2017

Welcome to Regis University

The Regis University Colorado Front Range (COFR) Center on Information
Assurance Studies (CIAS) is located in Denver, CO at the Lowell campus of
Regis University, a Jesuit university. Regis University educates men and
women of all ages to take leadership roles and to make a positive impact in
a changing society. Regis University has offered undergraduate and graduate
classes in security and information assurance (IA) since the early
e-commerce wave that swept the Internet. In 2005 we applied for, and received in June of 2006, our mapping by the Committee on National Security Systems to the CNSS 4011 and 4012 security training standards. Our University was designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education in June of 2007. The CAEIAE designation is current through 2017.

We currently have had several Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) students attend the University. These students are supporting a national repository for information security education materials (PRISM) that can be found at www.prismhome.org, and working to manage and support our Academic Research Network. The University has received a grant in 2010 to host a workshop to examine the various collegiate cybersecurity competitions and produce models for virtualization of the student events.

IASP Scholarship Information:

Recruitment for the IASP is not availalbe for the 2015-2016
academic year. The program may be reinitiated in 2016 -2017 school year If you are interested in viewing a previous application, the 2013 application can be downloaded by clicking on the IASP
Scholarship tab followed by clicking Application 2013. Accepted
IASP applicants who applied and are accepted for .

The Center is a portal for Colorado citizens, business and government to obtain information, research and education about Information Assurance. We accomplish our mission through active participation in the community and hosted events that educate and inform. We provide Regis faculty as speakers at Small Medium Business gatherings. We also attend public policy forums and conferences. We strive to educate the next generation of business leaders. The latest information from DoD's CIO office
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For further information contact Professor Dan Likarish at (303) 964-3680.

Newly formed College of Computer & Information Sciences (CC&IS)
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“No foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks,
steal our trade secrets, or invade the privacy of American families…”
President Obama.

State of the Union 2015.

The RMCCDC 2015 Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition will be hosted at
the DTC campus on 27 and 28 of February, 2015. Eight collegiate teams from the Rocky
Mountain region will compete in a business orientated cyber defense
challenge to represent us at the National CCDC in San Antonio in April.

In April the Center will host the regions national guard units in a
weekend cyber security exercise focused on scripting, monitoring and
logging and advanced systems tools.

PAST EVENTS:

The CIAS continues to host the Rocky Mountain CCDC providing the area
schools the opportunity to collegiate teams (CC, college and university) to
find out who is the best prepared and practiced regional team. The
RMCCDC is in its third year.

National guard units and state IT personnel participated in a year long
research study to improve their combined response in support of the
commercial sector in case of a cybersecurity threat to the State of
Colorado.

ISSA and ISACA members enjoyed a one day training session with the CIAS
students and staff in November of 2013.

The annual CANVAS student competition was held at the DTC campus in
October of 2013. Teams from USAFA, Ft. Hays, RU, DU, UCCS and CTU
competed in a mixed school cybersecurity challenge.

The Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cyber Defense Comeptition will be hosted at RU/DTC campus on March 1 and 2, 2013. Teams from the Rocky Mountain region will compete for an opportunity to represent our region at the National CCDC competition in San Antonio

The CIAS hosted the 2012 ICIW conference at the main campus in March.
International security educators presented their research and idea papers
to an eclectic group of students, industry and government, academic
cybersecurity professionals.

Regis' Faculty and students attend the Colloquium for Information
Security Education (CISSE) on a yearly basis.

Faculty and students attended the annual Rocky
Mountain Information Security Conference (RMISC) yearly in May. The conference is a place for professionals in IT Security, Auditing and Compliance to learn current information and to network.

Regis University hosted the first RMCCDC competition March 1 and 2, 2012 at the DTC campus. Teams from USAFA, CSU, CU, KSU, FT Hays State, Regis, U of New Mexico competed in the event. The Air Force Academy placed first and represented the Rocky Mountain region at Nationals in San Antonio, TX in April of 2012. They place second in the nation after the University of Washington.